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Well, that's definitely "F'ed-up"
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Wisconsin hospital worker arrested for spoiled vaccine dosesPharmacist was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property.
By TODD RICHMOND Associated PressDecember 31, 2020 — 5:05pm
MADISON, Wis. — Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing them from refrigeration for two nights.

The arrest marks another setback in what has been a slower, messier start to vaccinate Americans than public health officials had expected. Leaders in Wisconsin and other states have been begging the Trump administration for more doses as health care workers and senior citizens line up for the lifesaving vaccine.
Police in Grafton, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) north of Milwaukee, said the Advocate Aurora Health pharmacist was arrested on suspicion of reckless endangerment, adulterating a prescription drug and criminal damage to property, all felonies. The pharmacist has been fired and police said in a news release that he was in jail. Police did not identify the pharmacist, saying he has not yet been formally charged.
His motive remains unclear. Police said that detectives believe he knew the spoiled doses would be useless and people who received them would mistakenly think they'd been vaccinated when they hadn't.
Advocate Aurora Health Care Chief Medical Group Officer Jeff Bahr told reporters during a teleconference Thursday afternoon that the pharmacist deliberately removed 57 vials that held hundreds of doses of the Moderna vaccine from refrigeration at a Grafton medical center overnight on Dec. 24 into Dec. 25, returned them, then left them out again on the night of Dec. 25 into Saturday. The vials contained enough doses to inoculate 570 people.
A pharmacy technician discovered the vials outside the refrigerator on Saturday morning. Bahr said the pharmacist initially said that he had removed the vials to access other items in the refrigerator and had inadvertently failed to put them back.
The Moderna vaccine is viable for 12 hours outside refrigeration, so workers used the vaccine to inoculate 57 people before discarding the rest. Police said the discarded doses were worth between $8,000 and $11,000.
Bahr said health system officials grew more suspicious of the pharmacist as they reviewed the incident. After multiple interviews, the pharmacist acknowledged Wednesday that he removed the vaccine intentionally over the two nights, Bahr said.
That means that the doses people received Saturday are all but useless, he said. Moderna has told Aurora that there's no safety concerns, but the hospital system is closely monitoring the people who received the spoiled doses, he said.
Bahr declined to comment on the pharmacist's motive. He said the hospital system's security protocols are sound.
"This was a situation involving a bad actor," he said, "as opposed to a bad process."
The number of COVID-19 cases in Wisconsin has been rising in recent days after dipping in early December. The state Department of Health Services reported 3,810 newly confirmed cases on Thursday, marking the third straight day of rising daily infections. The state has now seen 481,102 cases.


https://www.startribune.com/wisconsin-ho...600005396/
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#2
Very little information coming out on this one.  Wonder what the motive will be.  Did a quick look up on the community demographics, very homogenous.  He lives in the community, been a licensed pharmacist since 97.  Yeah this is F'ed-up, hope he is prosecuted to the full extent permissible, not only putting individual lives in danger, but messing with everyone's trust in the system, like a terrorist.
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021...106096001/
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#3
WTF? Who does this?

I remember in the early days of Covid we talked about how the pandemic--like in the book The Stand--could see the world take sides and divide between good and evil. Sure, dystopian fiction. It's also based in truth. Like MLK said... "the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

In other words, every crisis, to a certain degree, brings out the best and the worst in us. But from the supply hoarders to the mask display destroyers to the cough in your facers to this guy....who knew there would be THIS much evil? 

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Just can't guess what motivated him, who was he trying to hurt, his community, the nation, humanity. WTF is correct.   
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#5
The motive could be so many.

Frankly, surprised he was caught. 
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